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Reasons For Motivation

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Prompt: The Doctoral Program is interested in your reasons for pursuing doctoral studies. Please describe them in an essay ranging from 500-700 words. Include the major field area to which you are applying (Accounting; Decision, Risk and Operations; Finance and Economics; Management; or Marketing).

My journey pursuing a PhD in finance and economics has hardly been straightforward: Although I started my undergraduate education as a film major, I quickly came to appreciate the analytical rigor found within the discipline. While a film major focuses on artistic storytelling, I developed a preference for the stories you can tell through a study of economics. While both are undoubtedly creative, my interest pivoted to this education in …show more content…

My curiosity drives me in the classroom as well. Not only have I demonstrated success by graduating with both departmental and school-wide honors studying economics, but I also supplemented this education with substantive mathematical coursework through Real Analysis and Differential Equations. Despite the obvious dichotomy between math and the original film major, I have been most successful in my math classes, exhibiting a perfect record despite the rigor. However, the real rewards from these courses are illustrated by my comfort and mastery economic topics that four years ago would have challenged me.
By maturing as both an academic and researcher, I am now able to tackle more intricate topics and teach them to others. While at Claremont McKenna College, I wrote an honors economics thesis using Regression Discontinuity Design to analyze incumbency advantage in State Legislatures around the United States. Additionally, I taught fellow student both at the beginning of their economic careers as a recitation lecturer at in a 50-person economics lecture, and at the end, by tutoring seniors in STATA and Econometrics during their theses. Ultimately, I am interested in the finance and economics because I am primarily interested in the relationship between an economy and its people. The advantage of this program against that of a purely traditional economics degree is that it incorporates the financial sector that pervades through every industry. I learned this first

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